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How do you handle the placebo effect?
by Rebelgecko 6y ago
How do you handle the placebo effect?
- Buttons840 6y agoJust don't handle it. The placebo effect tells us that some things that have no reason for working, work anyways.
- richthegeek 6y agoThat's not what it is at all. The placebo effect tells us that the thing we were doing did not cause the measured effect. If it's a placebo effect causing us to feel calmer, we could as easily hold a can of beans and be calmer if we believed it to cause us to become calmer.
- glxxyz 6y agoNo the placebo effect tells us that if we ask some people if some things are working, they tell us that they are working, when those things are not in fact working.
- jclos 6y agoIf you are not writing a paper, building a product, or treating it as scientific knowledge does it really matter?